Posting-tray



L. B. HALVERSON.

POSTING TRAY.

APPLICATION FILED FEB; 1.9. 1-919.

1,346,886; Patented July 20,1920.

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POSTING-TRAY. f

Myinvention relates to improvements in posting trays, and the main object is to provide a posting tray adapted for use by banks in posting checks and deposit slips in the ledger, though the tray may also be used by other business houses` for posting in the ledger the daily transaction of each customer. Another object is to provide aposting tray with resilient guards about'` the papers placed on the tray, the resiliency admitting freedom of the hand in placing and removing the papers. A third object is to provide a posting tray with paper guards or keepers that will admit lightV from all sides in upon the papers placed on the tray.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a face View of the improved tray with some papers on it, looking in the direction'of the arrow in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1, shown iny position i for service. Fig. 3 is an enlarged section on the line 3 3 in Fig. 2, showing clearly the construction of the lower end of each leg of the resilient arches, or the lower end of the resilient post 22. Fig. 4 shows the upper portions of several pages of a ledger to be posted from the papers on the tray.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 5 designates the body of the tray and may be made of woodv or other suitable materials; the lower end of said body board is supported on two soft cushions 6, so as not to scratch the table 7. The other end is supported by a suitable prop 8, which ispivoted at 9 to the ends of a cross cleat 10, which is fixed to the board and provided with wings 11 for the propto stop against when swung into supporting position. 12 is Y a cushion at the point of the prop contacting with the table. The upper side of the board is provided with two finger grooves, 13, to enable the operator to readily pick upthe-papers nearest to the board. Y y

15 designates a pileof checks and 16 the l deposit slips placed with their upper ends between the checks, all ready to be posted in the ledger, and 15@L and 16ar designate some of the checks and deposit slips turned upside down and placed farther up on the tray n g Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed February' 19, 1919.

f arches will resume normal position.

same is the case with the post A22. And light QFFICE- atented July 20,419.20.

after they havevbeeniposted.. Tor'etain y guard saidl piles of checksand slips in said places, theboard is `provided with. several rig-idwire arches-17 which are secured .in the board by "having'their'legs threaded and tof` provided with twoynuts,18, 19,0neiabove and the Vother below-fthe?board.` l The board is also provided with arches 20, made of resilient coil springs and having their legs secured to 'the board byA headed screws21 `(seeV Fig. 3) passed upwardly through holes in'the board and screwed into the legs,I the coils of said legs forming the threads'for the screw to engage in and hold the arch-leg upright. The flexible post 22 is likewisese cured to the board, and has its top end closed by a-short screw, whose round head 23V forms the top of the post.v At 20 inFig.

2 is lshown how those spring arches maybe .forced into mostly any shape s'oas to give room for the hands handlingy the checks and slips, and when the hands are removed the is admitted freely upon the papers 15, 16,

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not only Vfrom above but also laterally i through the open arches.

Inthe operation the tray is raised by thev prop 8 to a suitably inclined position and placed near the bookkeeping machine, such as is of late years` common in banks and large business houses, for posting upon detachable sheets 'of the ledger, say like the` pages 50, 60, and 80 in'Fig. 4:, the busi!y ness transactions of a day, or since the last l posting took place.

Now the book keeper, having arranged all l the deposit slips face up in the pile 16 and f 1- all checks face up inthe pile 15, in such an order that each depositors checks rest uponl Y his deposit slip or slips in the pile 16,`the

operator proceeds asfollows: If the check on the top of the pile is signed by A. B., he lputs sheet 50 in the machine (as the account writing` orfprintingV thereon'the date and checks, say $7, $5 and $13, he cannot help Alinding as the next document the deposit slip, from whichl he marks down, say $100,

theledger is done by hand or by a more or less perfect machine. Said page 50 being thus completed and the checks and deposit 100 I of A. is found on that page) and'after."`4

slips relating tovthat account turned upside-clown at 152-16?, the next check ouncl at the top of pile"15-16, if signed say,

C. DL, refers to the account of that cleposi- H Y ments made on the account.

tor on page 60; said page is then likewise posted, as shown, by posting the $25 in the deposit column and making the new balance formedof coil-springs and shaped as arches;

$100, below the old balance, $75.

`The next paper in the check pile linay be signed E, F., and is enteredron page 70, as shown. Onppage 80 is' shown how the same customer -or depositor, G. H., ma

have made two deposits in'one day, in which case the vnew balance, $90, Ais placed in the samev line as the last deposit. I .It is evident that for other business Vthan banking, the items shown on thegdrawing cated under deposits may represent pay Hiat I claim iscy A posting tray having paper guards saicl arches having their legs secured to the base of the tray by screws passed'through under checksf may representinerchanclise/ p.

vsold to the customer," and the items findi the 'base and screwed into the springv coils forming Vthe lower enclsof the legstof the arches. l

In testimony whereofl affix my signature.Y

- VLaits B. HALv'ERsoN-, 

